…The “Consider Corn Challenge” is a starting point to help the industry realize corn’s full potential. “Corn has a history of being an abundant, cost-effective, and sustainable feedstock for chemicals…
Pork Checkoff Builds Momentum for Secure Pork Supply Plan
…industries from an FMD outbreak would run $12.8 billion per year or $128 billion over a 10-year period. Related losses to corn and soybean markets over a decade would be…
NCGA Launches Open Innovation Challenge to Find the Next Big Thing for Corn
The Consider Corn Challenge Seeks New Uses for Field Corn as Feedstock for Sustainable Chemicals The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with innovation facilitator NineSigma, announced the launch of…
Year of Purple Foods
…sweet cereals like Frosted Flakes, there’s a healthy version in the color purple called Peace Cereal. The purple corn is rich in anthocyanins, which offer anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties. The…
U.S. Grains Council Statement On Announcement Of New Sugar Suspension Agreement
…a critical market for the U.S. grains industry – the top export destination for U.S. corn last year, the second largest buyer of U.S. distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS)…
Fatal Injuries Reported in Wisconsin Corn Mill Explosion
Photo via @deafgeoff At least one is dead and others missing as of Thursday afternoon following an explosion at a Wisconsin corn mill. Two workers remained missing Thursday after the…
Corn Replant Expected to reach “Historic” Levels
Seed industry leaders are expecting corn replant rates this year to reach historic levels. Ryan Parkin of Beck’s Hybrids told DTN-The Progressive Farmer “this will be a historic replant year,…
NAFTA a Success Story for Agriculture
…corn from Brazil, according to Tiemann. He says since the inception of NAFTA, U.S. ag exports to Canada and Mexico tripled and quintupled respectively. Noting concerns of the renegotiation of…
Plant Health and Production Workforce Funding from USDA
…Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, $400,000 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, $500,000 Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, $500,000 Alcorn State University, Lorman, Mississippi, $400,000 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, $461,187…
Funding For Commodity Board Projects to Support Ag Industry
…received a NIFA grant of $490,000, funded jointly with a consortia of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, Illinois Corn Marketing Board, Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council, Nebraska Corn Board,…
Agri View: Weather Costly to Producers
…registering unusually high crop losses. I told you about the peach crop, blueberries and early sweet corn. Now you can add the early watermelon crop. Not just winds. Wildfire losses…
Agri View: Hard Winter for Farmers
…The cold got them. Farmers who plant sweet corn for the early market normally are ready by Memorial Day. They will not have an early crop this year. This is…
USDA Approves Modifications to Margin Protection Plan of Insurance for Crops
…program, margin protection insurance for corn, wheat, rice and soybeans will be available in more states and have updates designed to better clarify the real input costs covered beginning in…
Cargill: Grain Glut to Last
…of crops in storage. Global corn, wheat and soybean inventories have increased over the last four years in the longest stretch of gains since the late 1990s, according to the…